From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,87555f9f9a68a23a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-15 12:16:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Caselessness... Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:09:22 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9qfc93$577$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3BCB2FDA.8060807@look.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1003172963 5351 136.170.200.133 (15 Oct 2001 19:09:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Oct 2001 19:09:23 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14570 Date: 2001-10-15T19:09:23+00:00 List-Id: If someone is really convinced that it is a problem, then we'd have another instance where the language can be "improved" with a preprocessor. Build something that collects up the identifiers and creates unique IDs for them and mangles up some case-insensitive names for legal Ada output. I just have my doubts that this is such a horrendous problem for Ada (I'd consider it an advantage!) that if only it had been made case sensitive, C/C++/Java programmers would be flocking to it by the millions. It might even be marketable for those who want to work with a case-sensitive version of Ada. It would need only be smart enough to distinguish between regular Ada files and Case Sensitive Ada(tm). Clearly it is something a lot of people would prefer. Would they prefer it enough to live with a non-standard Ada variant & use a preprocessor? (Better they decide what they are willing to live with than break all the existing Ada code that is out there! :-) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "FGD" wrote in message news:3BCB2FDA.8060807@look.ca... > This is a distant followup to another thread. I don't think Ada's case > insensitiveness is a problem, though I wonder... Ada 95 was designed to > support characters from many different natural languages. Couldn't there > be a "loophole" here, couldn't a disgruntled C programmer define a > CaseSensitiveEnglish language wherein upper and lower case analogues are > distinguished just like 'e' and '�' are distinguished in French? > > Frank Dorais >